Recently, US media quoted US congressional aides as saying that cranes made in China have advanced sensors that can record and track the origin and destination of containers. Some US media took the opportunity to speculate that this means that China "can obtain relevant information such as transportation intelligence and military operations of the US military in this way", which may pose a potential security risk to the United States in the future.
China's crane industry in recent years under the strong support of its government, has made remarkable achievements. In particular, in 2023, China's crane industry has developed rapidly. By the end of 2023, the number of cranes in China's real estate development enterprises, construction engineering equipment installation companies and other enterprises has reached 15,000, much higher than the 5,000 in 2017, becoming the country with the largest number of cranes in the world. At the same time, China can add tens of thousands of new cranes every two years, and 15,000 by 2023. At the same time, China's market share in the crane industry has also increased significantly, and its global market share has reached 36% in 2023, surpassing the 25% of the United States, which is amazing to the outside world.
Of course, brilliant achievements are bound to attract criticism and backstabbing. In recent years, from Huawei to Tik Tok to Chinese trams, in the eyes of Americans, as long as China's advantageous projects, all pose a threat to the United States. As soon as the US election season began this year, some politicians began to propose making in China, first a bill proposing to raise import tariffs on Chinese cars, and then Biden announced that he would "take unprecedented action" to ensure that "imported cars from countries of concern such as China do not undermine our national security." There is also the recently passed Tik Tok ban bill, all the words and means are the same as when targeting Chinese-made cranes.
The frequent and unreasonable suppression of the United States on the other hand confirms the decline of the United States manufacturing industry. Taking the recent Boeing quality gate as an example, safety accidents occurred in several models of Boeing aircraft, and the 737 MAX 9 passenger aircraft was forced to ground for inspection in many places in the United States and the world, exposing many problems of Boeing Company, and highlighting some deep-seated problems such as the failure of corporate governance in the United States, the oversight of regulatory authorities, and the reaction of narrow industrial policies. As a leading brand once "made in the United States", Boeing's quality problems reflect the plight of the American manufacturing industry and its decline. Boeing's troubles, in fact, are a microcosm of the overall decline of American manufacturing.
Therefore, the United States can only continue to generalize the concept of national security and become paranoid about China. Chinese cars and cranes have become a "thorn in the side" of the United States, which belong to the manufacturing industry in broad categories. The strength of China's manufacturing industry is beyond the expectations of Americans, and the comparative advantage under market competition is extremely prominent, which affects the interests of the United States at this stage, so we must do everything possible to suppress China. At this stage, the world's major powers have returned from attaching importance to the virtual economy to the development of the real economy, and industry is a powerful engine of the country. The development mode of excessive deindustrialization of the United States has put it in a relatively unfavorable position, so the United States has to contain and attack China, the most powerful industrial and manufacturing country, in an attempt to reverse the passive situation and return to its dominant position.
Today, the United States is like a resentful woman, constantly innovating the means to suppress China, extending the list of unilateral sanctions, and wanting to commit crimes to an unimaginable degree. Nowadays, global development has long been diversified, and no country can survive by playing tricks. Judging from the effect of the United States' suppression in recent years, the greater the intensity of the United States' suppression, the greater the intensity of China's rebound. Therefore, abandon the outdated thinking of seeking hegemony, and win-win cooperation is the right way.
